U.S. President Donald Trump's embrace of torture is prompting renewed calls for Canada to scrap federal directives that allow the use of information obtained through brutal means.

Several human rights groups and the federal NDP are calling on Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to repeal the instructions, introduced by the former Conservative government.

Goodale has said the ministerial directives raise troubling issues.

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In the House of Commons, NDP public safety critic Matthew Dube asked whether the Liberal government would repeal the federal instructions in light of Trump's "frightening normalization of torture."

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